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The world press on the legacy of 9/11
Compiled by Laura McClure
The Guardian: Did U.S. authorities purposely fail to avert the attacks in 2001?
Canada’s safe haven for junkies
Mark Follman
Vancouver hopes to save hundreds of lives by opening street clinics where heroin addicts can shoot up safely. But the White House is accusing Canada of going AWOL from its war on drugs.
A “mind-numbingly boring” propaganda film
Kristen Breitweiser
A 9/11 widow reviews last night's Showtime film about President Bush's actions on and after that fateful morning.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Why is the CNN News I watch overseas so much better than the watery slobber they show in America?
All together now
Julia Goldberg
The Democratic presidential candidates take turns bashing Bush -- and pay little attention to each other.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "Lenny Bruce Died for Our Sins," by Gary Kamiya, and "We're Losing the War in Afghanistan, Too," by John Sifton.
The fall of John Walker Lindh
Mark Kukis
He met bin Laden and carried arms for the Taliban. And when he was finally captured, he faced the fury of Americans -- U.S. soldiers in particular. Part 2 of an exclusive excerpt.
The world press on Afghanistan and Iraq
Compiled by Laura McClure
A Taliban fighter boasts about how his comrades beat the Afghan TV minister "like a dog."
John Walker Lindh’s long, dark journey
Mark Kukis
How an earnest American student of Islam became a fighter for the Taliban: An exclusive excerpt from the first biography of Lindh.
Who’s tougher on terror?
Joe Conason
Conservatives blame 9/11 on Clinton. But it was Bush Republicans who made deals with terrorists -- while Clinton's team took concrete steps to protect Americans. Part 5 of "Big Lies."
We’re losing the war in Afghanistan, too
John Sifton
A human rights worker reports from the
other front in the U.S. war on terror,
where warlords reign supreme, music is once
again banned, journalists hide from
gunmen, and even the streets of Kabul are
filled with fear.
Terrorist threat or political hype?
Paul J. Caffera
Top Bush administration officials called the bust of arms dealer Hemant Lakhani last week a major blow against terrorism. Security experts are skeptical.
A huge and terrible mess
Salon Staff
In a speech to MoveOn.org, former Vice President Al Gore admonishes Bush and says "something basic has gone wrong in our country."
The war according to David Hackworth
Jonathan Franklin
The retired colonel calls Donald Rumsfeld an "asshole" whose bad planning mired U.S. troops in an ugly guerrilla conflict in Iraq. His sources? Defiant soldiers sending dispatches from the front.
Terror in the Saudi kingdom
Mark Follman
CIA veteran Bob Baer talks about the censored 9/11 report, why al-Qaida is still cozy in the house of Saud -- and why Osama is winning.
Are we safer now?
Eric Boehlert
The war on Saddam has made the U.S. less secure, say foreign-policy experts.
Woods on fire
Amy Reiter
Actor James Woods says he hates to talk about politics -- yet can't seem to help himself. In a let-it-rip interview, he defends Bush, calls Clinton a "liar," and sounds off on everything from his sex life to the war with Iraq.
“A blink of an eye, and a million killed”
Suzy Hansen
Author Aidan Hartley talks about his new book, "The Zanzibar Chest," the horrors of Somalia and Rwanda, and when you know war has become genocide.
The classified truth
Robert Scheer
Even the censored version of the 9/11 report makes it clear the U.S. focused on the wrong nation.
Don’t sweat the small stuff
Joyce McGreevy
A $5 trillion deficit? Bring it on, says our man at the OMB.
The Liberia waiting game
Laura McClure
Can the Bush administration bring itself to commit U.S. troops in Africa on purely humanitarian grounds?
“Buffalo Soldiers”
Stephanie Zacharek
Miramax delayed Gregor Jordan's film about bored U.S. soldiers in mid-'80s Germany because of Sept. 11. Its honest portrait of the military won't seem any more flattering now.
“Charlie Wilson’s War”
Charles Taylor
In George Crile's thrilling tale of good intentions gone wrong, one boozing congressman convinces the U.S. to support the Afghan mujahedin -- many of whom 20 years later want to see us dead.
Disgracing America, failing Iraq
Salon Staff
Sen. Edward Kennedy: Bush's lies have undermined America's prestige and credibility around the world.
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